Garment-supporter.



W. P. KELLOGG. GARMENT SUPPORTEB.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 190B.

Patented M2112, 1909.

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WALTER P. KELLOGG, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed June 4, 1908. Serial No. 436,625.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. KELLOGG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and 1 State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1 a view in front elevation of a garment-supporter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a broken view thereof in vertical section on an enlarged scale.

My invention consists in an improvement in garment-supporters, the object being to prevent any contact of the elastic fabric with the buckle and to secure the economy proceeding from provision for utilizing short ends of elastic fabric such as elastic webbing.

With these ends in View my invention consists in certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

For the purpose of this application I have chosen to show my invention as embodied in a hose-supporter, but it is equally well adapted to be used in a variety of situations where economy of elastic fabric is an item to be considered, and indeed may be used in all or most all garment-supporters.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a short section of elastic fabric 2 the upper end of which is stitched between the lower end 3 of a piece of nonelastic fabric and a loop 4 formed by passing the said end 3 from rear to front through the bing 2 is inserted and secured by stitches S as shown. In this way the elastic webbing 2 is located entirely below the buckle with which it makes no contact whatever. The fabric forming the outer portion of the loop is then passed upward back of the lower bar 9 of the buckle, thence from rear to front through the fabric-opening 7 of the buckle, thence from front to rear through the fabricopening 5 of the buckle, and thence u ward back of the upper bar 10 of the buck e, the lower edge of which is furnished with a series of inwardly set teeth 1 1 on which the fabric is caught. Treated in this way the entire back of the buckle is covered by the fabric which protects the metal of the buckle from the moisture of the body. At its lower end the elastic fabric 2 is turned to form a loop 12 receiving a wire loop 13 of the wedge type which coacts with a button-member 14 ap plied to the end of a short length of tape 15 the upper end of which is stitched to the rear face of the lower end of the elastic webbing 2.

Of course the articular mode of applying the non-elastic abric to the buckle may be varied according to the character of the buckle and the circumstances of use, nor is it necessary to cover the back of the buckle so as to secure rustlessness, though that is desirable.

I claim In a garment-supporter, the combination with a buckle, of a piece of non-elastic fabric applied to the said buckle to form a free end and a loop depending below and clear of the buckle, a piece of elastic fabric having its upper end inserted between the said end and loop and secured by stitching thereto, and a clasp applied to the lower end of the elastic fabric, whereby the amount of elastic fabric required is reduced to the minimum.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER P. KELLOGG.

Witnesses:

A. W. LoNsBY, E. B. Jonson. 

